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Ordered out for an indian. So waiting for the lamb balti and peshwari to arrive. Having one of those annoying sudden hit of tired and mental daze but keeping myself going forward or at least staggering in a general direction...

Returned to Hensha on my second playthrough..and just realised I missed a couple of those Hugh Darrow ebooks in TYM.. Darn. Ah well, something to keep in mind when I get around to a third one.

No, I've had that a few times but I don't alt-tab. It's not that common, but it happened maybe a dozen times through one playthrough.

You probably have a lot of RAM. Mine were fairly annoying on the PC. Well, 4Gig of Ram. But in-game I don't have any long loading times, if I've been playing for a couple of hours re-loading a saved game might take 20 seconds or so.

Maybe it's just cause I have the pc version, but loading times are never a problem for me.

I kind of see the self-sacrifice one as the most logical for canon... Pushes the mystery aspects, adds to the Bob Paige ending talk of "search the wreckage", and adds the posibility of

It's pretty much the and you'll be done... at least for one playthrough.

Woke up from some semi-odd dreams because a dog jumped onto the bed and landed on my back. Then kind of laid there with the sounds of high winds in the trees and rain on the windows being a tad hypnotic... The rain has now stopped, but the wind is still causing a hellava lot of tree sway and branch/leaf rustle. Trying to keep my brain ticking along and in some form of focus as the day shapes up...

Also, some of the hacks let you hack the registry. If you do, you automatically "win" the hack and pick up all the datastores, even if you haven't captured them yourself.

Eidos Montreal had planned more City Hubs An interview with JJB and Frank Lapikas, mentions how they'd actually planned there to be streets in Montreal, a seperate hub for Upper Hengsha (most of which had actually been built), and even a small hub in India somewhere.. but due to constraints they'd had to cut them down.

Gran is away in france visiting one of my uncles.. so we snuck over to her house to pull up a bunch of paving stones in her garden, level out the surface since it had all started sinking in, then relayered the paving stones. Now I'm home, it's noon..and I'm getting to enjoy my first damn cup of tea of the day. Huzzah.

Read an amusing editorial on just how "rapey" George R R Martin's fantasy series is. Identifying each major female character, and just how many incidents of threatened rape, actual rape, raped and fell in love with rapist, which book either happened in, the general spousal abuse, and the teenage rape. Ended with an "if I hadn't run into Mr Martin at a convention and found him fairly pleasant, I'd think he'd be an exceptionally creepy man if I went by those books..."

Been doing a slow paced 2nd playthrough of Deus Ex Human Revolution off and on between moments of reality...

Got called in as "IT support" by a friend , so spend some time trying to solve a problem on a laptop. Complicated by the fact it was set to Chilean Spanish... and the spanish speaker didn't know how to translate completely. Then ended the evening with cuban cigars and cuban rum supplied by that friend as we sat around afterwards.

I would say that I kept expecting there to be some sidequest involving the slew of missing girls in Detroit. You overhear a couple of conversations relating to it, you see the Missing posters up around the hub, and you can hack into the computer of the cop who is handling the case... But I never actually found anything you could look into relating to it. Background fluff, or potential DLC aspect?

Hm, my first playthrough I wandered in there before I even knew I needed that card and it let me pick it up, had a nice little dialogue of "hey do you know of any use for a tym smart card? ah well, maybe it'll be useful later". I didn't think it was possible to break quests by picking things up or wandering into areas early...

I think the one key piece of narrative that really annoyed me, was at TYM and the fact that you have to listen to the whole "helpless woman" routine and can't interrupt it. Throughout that whole talk, I just wanted to scream at Jensen "Stop listening and being distracted, just chin the bitch!"

The Animals - House of the Rising Sun Sometimes, that just suits the mood.

On the return to Hengsha. It's impossible to miss, it bumps into the main storyline, so if you progress that.. the bonus mission will kick off.

Just picked up mom's prescriptions from the doctors and took them over the pharmacy, got jumped by a hyper-enthusiastic "paid professional fund-raiser" for some "sponsor a child" in bali charity. They're all "just give us the money for a kebab a week and it'll save a child!". I'm so tempted to ask them if they feel it's so important why aren't they just raising money as volunteer work, and putting their paycheque towards these kids. Although at the moment being able to do the whole "i'm a primary carer for a disabled parent, my income is x a week from the government. you can't make me feel guilty and my budget is that tight." is usually a good way of stopping them. Then got home to find that with all the road works going on at the junction, some car's driven past ours and smashed the wing mirror. And never bothered to mention it. But dang, it's warm. Refreshing myself with a pineapple, banana and coconut smoothie.

The second boss battle depends heavily on whether you have one aug or not. The only aug's that really count against federova are if you have the EMP shielding..which is quite useful.. or the dermal plating because she can do so much damage quickly. My stealthy hacker ran up against Barret, but by throwing three explosives under his feet and setting them off together he was out quick. Against Federova, If you're good with sprint and have a few emp grenades, once you figure out to keep an eye on the water for where she's running as cloaked.. it turned out fairly simple to keep dashing out of the way of her typhoon blasts, then stun her with emp and unload the heavy rifle on her.. Similarly with Namir, as long as you have something to quickly stun him.. it's just about dropping several explosives under him and he's out. The boss fights are annoying even on Deus Ex difficulty, but don't rely on you having any specific aug. I just wish they did have some non-pure-boom route to deal with them.

It's that whole inter-connectivity of muscles in the back.. the way it's almost impossible to make any movement without the whole thing flaring up. So my condolences Wals. Tis turned all bright and sunny here, and managed to get the dogs somewhat settled. But have to do the walk up to the doctors to pick up mom's prescriptions in a bit.. Definitely the the rather bright sky that's calling for sunglasses.

I was thinking of doing a new playthrough on normal difficulty this time around. Just to see what differences do show up compared to the "Give me Deus Ex"

May fortune favour you Tarna. Been one of those mornings, weird dreams, overslept when the alarm didn't go off. The puppy has been a bit of a nightmare, but finally seem to have him settled down. And I've got one of those annoying.. muscle-ripple-twitches in one eyelid. Trying to decide whether to settle for an early lunch snack and a fresh cup of tea, or make an attempt at focusing on some work...

I have to admit, there was something both subtly "wrong" but aestheticlly pleasing about the white room at the end of the Omega Ranch...